Improved blank for harvester guard-finger



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JERoMEVFAssL-ER, or-senrnern'L-n; OHIO.`

Letters Patent No. 95,334,

dated September 28, 1869.

IMPROVE!) BLANK FOR HARVESTER Gflfl'ARliD-I'IN(Ei-EIR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent vand making part of the same.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, J EROME FASSLER, of Springfield, inthe county of Clark, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in thexMan-v ufacture of Harvester Guard-Fingers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- `nection, also, with the perfection anduniformity of the results attained.

Before the blank is presentedto the dies,'it should present,A roughly, the form in which itis finally to be iashioned; andl it has hitherto been customary, in the, manufacture of i guard-fingers, to produce the rough blanks by hand-forging.' This process involved a large amount of labor, which I dispense with, by procuring bars of suitable metal, of one and three-iburths by one inch cross-section, and by means of a powerful shearing-apparatus, cutting said bar into blanks, as represented in the lines of iig. 1.

No material is wasted in -the cutting, except a small piece, at either end ofthe bar.

The subsequent operations necessary to the formation of' 'guard-lingers from the above-described blanks are fully set forth inthe specification forming a part y of my application for Letters Yatent, filed of even date -l1erewith, for machinery for manufacturing harvester guard-lingers.

Having now described my invention, What I claim as-new, is-

Shearing or punching blanks from solid plates or bars of iron or steel, substantially asv shown in fig. 1,

whereby the forging or forming of harvester guard-tingers is greatly facilitated in their manufacture, as 'herein set forth.

' JEROME FASSLER..

Witnesses:

Geo. W. BENNs,

P. W. KELLY. 

